Stormed Fortress Quotes

“Does vengeance or blame ease the sorrow of heart-ache? We all make mistakes. Life can’t be lived without harm to others.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“You don’t have to like a man to respect him.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“I would sooner converse with a snake!" He side-stepped the clutter.

"Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“Sometimes there are no victims to save, and nothing is broken that should be fixed.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“But hope always kindles through striving.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard’s revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first!”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“I trust you," she murmured through urgency. "Completely. Without end, and before the beginning.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“There are no victims, now. While we survive, for as long as we love, our future is yet to be written.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people!”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“I pity the man who can’t cry.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“Doubt packs more damage, kept secret.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“A soldier’s life is all grinding routine. Who sold you the rosy notion of honour, trumped up in bright flags and glory? We’re here to burn barley. Tossing a torch takes a damned sight less practice than trenching hard ground with a spade.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned. They exist, beyond price, and we cannot hope to match up to them.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress